For your world tour video, you visited a lot of iconic skate parks. Why did you choose only parks and not street spots?
My official Chaya promo was already a street section so I was looking to skate more parks, since we have great street spots in Barcelona but the skateparks are a lot better in other countries. I love to skate street. But when I travel, the time is very limited so during a day at the skatepark I know I will skate and film all day, while skating street I might end up wandering around and not get ot skate. Also street skating is usually a lot more challenging and dangerous than park, like skating a big rail after a long flight and with a jet lag is not ideal…
On your Youtube channel you state that even as it started as promo filming for your pro boot, “It was all self-funded, with no support from any brands or sponsors, no photographers or videographers, just Johanna (your wife) and myself.” Why is Chaya not a sponsor on this edit which technically is a promo video for the boot?
I included that statement because many times I encounter people that believe I am a full-time skater and make a living skating which is very shocking to me. I don’t want people to have a distorted impression or false hopes about what a pro roller skater is at this point because in my case I never received any small payment from sponsors until very recently.
It was a great experience that Chaya sent Rafa to Barcelona to film my official Pro skate promo and I am extremely grateful for it. But for this video there are no sponsors because no brand supported or funded it. Now there are some cool roller skating projects with big brands investing on tours, photographers and videographers, which is a great thing, but people should know this is not the case. Johanna and I paid for everything, travelled with our own photo and video gear, invested a huge amount of time filming, shooting, editing and so on and I just hope people like the final result.
My skate is finally out and it would be great to recover a little part of what I invested thanks to the royalties of the pro skate, but in the end Johanna and I did it because we wanted and we absolutely loved the experience. We will remember these trips the rest of our lives, it was totally worth it.
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